Best bet at lowering CCW age?

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It'd be fine with me to lower the age for CCW to 18; however, you're going to run into folks like lilly who'll oppose such a move. I have yet to meet an l.e.o. who's as intelligent or shows better judgment than I when I was 18, or one of my sons at 18. As a matter of fact, most of the l.e.o.'s I've met were probably more dangerous than most of the non-l.e.o.'s that I've met.

Further, it'd politically be a huge mistake to tie lowering the CCW age to lowering the drinking age. These are two entirely different issues with dramatically different constituencies. I don't think there'll be much of a public sentiment to lower the CCW age to 18, but I'm one "older" shooter who'd be all for it.
 
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Zeke,
Almost all ive told this too have said it wont happen. Which makes me want to push even harder. Its very possible. Nobody has ever really had to guts to do it themselves. They automaticlly think they will get struck down. Im very different :).
 
to really get this off the ground are you looking at lowering the CCW age to 18 in your state.



or getting the supreme court to strike out part or all of the 68' GCA, dealing with handgun buying from a FFL at age 21?




one is a grassroots effort that will be hard because alot of ppl usually are content unless the issue effects them directly(ala age difference... they will just say... i had to wait... you can too, which is a wrong attitude)

the other deals with lots of money, a great lawyer... and willingness to pursue the court case and hopefully have the SCOTUS hear your case.




sadly alot of ppl in the pro-ccw world are very willing to give up a difference on the age in order to get a law passed. yes some things need to take baby steps... but again if it doesnt affect some ppl, then they care less about the limitations- instead of worrying about the principles at stake
 
Again, I agree with lowering the FFL purchase age to 18. My pet peeve, however, as far as ridiculous, probably unconstitutional laws are concerned, is the law that says that I can't go 30 mi. to a gunshop across the state line and buy a handgun. That's truly absurd. Can you think of any other item that's legal to buy in both states, but which can't be bought across the state line? I consider that to be a horrible invasion of personal freedom and would suspect that the law wouldn't stand scrutiny. Thing is, nobody's going to waste the time and money to pursue the matter, as rotten as it is.
 
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